On this list, I do not think you should be in the business of> <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> For many years, this has been
> a tug of war between
> industry on one side, and the department of defense and the NSA on the
> other.
>
>
> You left out the Department of Energy, which is a much bigger player
> than the DoD.
>
> Meaningful computational power has been available on desktops for
> quite a while, and, if one desktop wasn't enough, you could always
> Beowulf it, which isn't much different from what the DoE has been doing.
>
> If you think flops is a good measure of the science you can do, you
> should probably be in a different business.
>
> Robert.
>
1- putting your words in other people's mouths
2- telling people what business they should or should not be in.
Thanks for the advice.
I've been involved in this debate in a very public way for a long time now.
YOU chose to use this list to advocate a position that the DoE has been using for years to convince people that ever bigger computers are a good way to spend money. If you didn't say it, you certainly strongly implied it (more flops is better).
I answered you because you stepped on MY toes.
How long have you been around? The Cray-1 was practically synonymous with "supercomputer," and that kind of power has been available to desktop users for a long time now.
Robert.
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